diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 1b75fe321..d9e89e222 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@
     "temp": "^0.8.3",
     "text-buffer": "13.14.5",
     "timecop": "https://www.atom.io/api/packages/timecop/versions/0.36.2/tarball",
-    "tree-sitter": "0.13.0",
+    "tree-sitter": "0.13.2",
     "tree-view": "https://www.atom.io/api/packages/tree-view/versions/0.222.0/tarball",
     "typescript-simple": "1.0.0",
     "underscore-plus": "^1.6.8",
diff --git a/spec/tree-sitter-language-mode-spec.js b/spec/tree-sitter-language-mode-spec.js
index 37413a9d5..9a574c5e8 100644
--- a/spec/tree-sitter-language-mode-spec.js
+++ b/spec/tree-sitter-language-mode-spec.js
@@ -314,6 +314,39 @@ describe('TreeSitterLanguageMode', () => {
       ])
     })
 
+    it('applies rules when specified', async () => {
+      const grammar = new TreeSitterGrammar(atom.grammars, jsGrammarPath, {
+        parser: 'tree-sitter-javascript',
+        scopes: {
+          'identifier': [
+            {match: '^(exports|document|window|global)$', scopes: 'global'},
+            {match: '^[A-Z_]+$', scopes: 'constant'},
+            {match: '^[A-Z]', scopes: 'constructor'},
+            'variable'
+          ],
+        }
+      })
+
+      buffer.setText(`exports.object = Class(SOME_CONSTANT, x)`)
+
+      const languageMode = new TreeSitterLanguageMode({buffer, grammar})
+      buffer.setLanguageMode(languageMode)
+      await nextHighlightingUpdate(languageMode)
+
+      expectTokensToEqual(editor, [
+        [
+          {text: 'exports', scopes: ['global']},
+          {text: '.object = ', scopes: []},
+          {text: 'Class', scopes: ['constructor']},
+          {text: '(', scopes: []},
+          {text: 'SOME_CONSTANT', scopes: ['constant']},
+          {text: ', ', scopes: []},
+          {text: 'x', scopes: ['variable']},
+          {text: ')', scopes: []},
+        ]
+      ])
+    })
+
     it('handles nodes that start before their first child and end after their last child', async () => {
       const grammar = new TreeSitterGrammar(atom.grammars, rubyGrammarPath, {
         parser: 'tree-sitter-ruby',
diff --git a/src/tree-sitter-grammar.js b/src/tree-sitter-grammar.js
index 04ca7f438..8e99d07db 100644
--- a/src/tree-sitter-grammar.js
+++ b/src/tree-sitter-grammar.js
@@ -22,10 +22,7 @@ class TreeSitterGrammar {
 
     const scopeSelectors = {}
     for (const key in params.scopes || {}) {
-      scopeSelectors[key] = params.scopes[key]
-        .split('.')
-        .map(s => `syntax--${s}`)
-        .join(' ')
+      scopeSelectors[key] = toSyntaxClasses(params.scopes[key])
     }
 
     this.scopeMap = new SyntaxScopeMap(scopeSelectors)
@@ -74,6 +71,18 @@ class TreeSitterGrammar {
   }
 }
 
+const toSyntaxClasses = scopes =>
+  typeof scopes === 'string'
+    ? scopes
+      .split('.')
+      .map(s => `syntax--${s}`)
+      .join(' ')
+    : Array.isArray(scopes)
+    ? scopes.map(toSyntaxClasses)
+    : scopes.match
+    ? {match: new RegExp(scopes.match), scopes: toSyntaxClasses(scopes.scopes)}
+    : Object.assign({}, scopes, {scopes: toSyntaxClasses(scopes.scopes)})
+
 const NODE_NAME_REGEX = /[\w_]+/
 
 function matcherForSpec (spec) {
diff --git a/src/tree-sitter-language-mode.js b/src/tree-sitter-language-mode.js
index 2fec0843a..5026d3b86 100644
--- a/src/tree-sitter-language-mode.js
+++ b/src/tree-sitter-language-mode.js
@@ -870,7 +870,6 @@ class LayerHighlightIterator {
   }
 
   // Private methods
-
   _moveUp (atLastChild) {
     let result = false
     const {endIndex} = this.treeCursor
@@ -928,13 +927,37 @@ class LayerHighlightIterator {
   }
 
   _currentScopeId () {
-    const name = this.languageLayer.grammar.scopeMap.get(
+    const rules = this.languageLayer.grammar.scopeMap.get(
       this.containingNodeTypes,
       this.containingNodeChildIndices,
       this.treeCursor.nodeIsNamed
     )
-    if (name) {
-      return this.languageLayer.languageMode.grammar.idForScope(name)
+    const scopes = applyLeafRules(rules, this.treeCursor)
+    if (scopes) {
+      return this.languageLayer.languageMode.grammar.idForScope(scopes)
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+const applyLeafRules = (rules, cursor) => {
+  if (!rules || typeof rules === 'string') return rules
+  if (Array.isArray(rules)) {
+    for (let i = 0, {length} = rules; i !== length; ++i) {
+      const result = applyLeafRules(rules[i], cursor)
+      if (result) return result
+    }
+    return undefined
+  }
+  if (typeof rules === 'object') {
+    if (rules.exact) {
+      return cursor.nodeText === rules.exact
+        ? applyLeafRules(rules.scopes, cursor)
+        : undefined
+    }
+    if (rules.match) {
+      return rules.match.test(cursor.nodeText)
+        ? applyLeafRules(rules.scopes, cursor)
+        : undefined
     }
   }
 }